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Publicat in: December 9, 2009, Vizualizari: 43
19 year old Irish driver Craig Breen won the Fiesta Sporting Trophy International Shootout, climaxing remarkable earlier successes as FSTi champion, national FST UK champion, national FST Ireland champion, the Irish Junior Rally champion as well as winning the Billy Coleman Award in his home country. The reward for this latest success is a 12-month employment contract with M-Sport, an apartment at the Dovenby Hall HQ and the provision of a road car. He will work in different areas of the company, travelling to the European WRC events with the BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team, attending press functions and driving at PR events. 16 competitors qualified for the Shootout after their performances in FST championships around the globe. They faced a series of physical and psychological tests and an assessment of media skills before the final driving challenge, a three kilometre stage in the GpN Fiesta ST at M-Sport's Greystoke Forest. New Zealander Ben Jagger was favourite to win the award after scoring top points in the associated aptitude tests but he crashed his car on the special stage runs and was excluded.

Mikko Hirvonen won both the nighttime and the daylight sections of the Memorial Bettega stadium races in Bologna, beating Sebastien Ogier in the final.

Novikov told friends in Moscow he will return to Russian Rally Championship in 2010 with the ALM Rally Team and will start at the wheel of a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X. Basically, for fun only... Concerning continuation of his foreign career, Evgeniy has told Russian colleagues that will return to international rallying only if someone will pay for it.

Mikko Hirvonen was voted Autosport Rally Driver of the Year, and Kris Meeke has won the award for the motorsport Rookie of the Year. His rallying driver career had started in 2000 and he won the IRC title in 2009. He was selected over various Formula 1 drivers and also the WRC driver Sebastien Ogier.

The inaugural Production Car World Rally Championship Karamjit Singh won the Bukit Merah
Rally at Perak, the final round of his native Malaysian championship, and clinched the title. Fellow Mitsubishi driver Ricardo Trivino meanwhile won the final round of the Mexico championship (at Acapulco) and won that series as well. Evo X driver Trivino had already won the 2009 FIA Nacam zone series as well.

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